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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 2 | $****** - ****** | PENSEUR, PETIT MODÈLE |
sculpture
37.6 cm (14.8 in)
bronze
inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris, inscribed with the raised signature A. Rodin on the underside of the base
Musée Rodin, Paris
Sale: Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, 18th October 1952, lot 169
Pol Depasse, Brussels (sold: Sotheby’s, London, 26th March 1985, lot 1)
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner
George Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, nos. 167-169, illustrations of another cast pp. 73-74
George Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, illustration of the plaster p. 40
Henri Martinie, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1949, no. 19, illustration of another cast
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, illustrations of other casts pp. 25, 52 & 53
Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, edition catalogued p. 88; illustration of another cast pl. 11
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, edition catalogued and illustrations of other casts pp. 111-120
Albert E. Elsen (ed.), Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D.C., 1981, illustration of the clay p. 67
Albert E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, Stanford, 1985, figs. 50 & 60, illustrations of the clay model pp. 56 & 71
Hélène Pinet, Rodin Sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, illustrations of other casts pp. 80-83
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, edition catalogued p. 587
inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris; inscribed with the raised signature A. Rodin on the underside of the base
bronze
height: 37.6cm.
14 3/4 in.
Conceived in original size circa 1880-81. This reduction was conceived in 1902 and the present example was cast between 1920 and 1930.
